Biotechnology

This book encompasses current knowledge of soil microbiomes and their potential biotechnological application for plant growth, crop yield, and soil health under the natural as well as harsh environmental conditions for sustainable agriculture.

This edited book brings together experts on the sociolinguistics of immigration with a focus on the Italo-Romance dialects.

This book reviews the latest developments in our understanding of microbial endophytes and their potential applications in enhancing productivity and disease protection.

This volume focuses on very young children's (aged 0-8) rights in a digital world.

To address the environmental, socioeconomic, and geopolitical issues associated with increasing global human energy consumption, technologies for utilizing renewable carbon-free or carbon-neutral energy sources must be identified and developed.

This book offers an updated overview of the most recent research advances in the field, a comparison of established techniques and methods, a discussion on current experimental and translational challenges, and a commentary on potential opportunities and future directions.

Soil is an important but often neglected element of the climate system.

This volume summarizes the state-of-the-art technologies, key advances and future trends in the field of label-free biosensing.

This book focuses on threats, especially contaminants, to drinking water and the supply system, especially in municipalities but also in industrial and even residential settings.

This volume presents the recent developments on the biomedical applications of chitosan and its derivatives.

This handbook addresses treatment planning for children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and other neurodevelopmental disabilities (NDDs) using a medical home perspective.

This edited volume in the Community Psychology Book Series emphasizes applications of community psychology for disrupting dominant and hegemonic power relations.

This volume examines significant social transformations engendered by the ongoing Syrian conflict in the lives of Syrian Armenians.

This book presents abiotic stresses that cause crop damage in the range of 6-20%.

This book examines issues relating to postsecondary transition from high school to college or competitive vocational settings for Autistic adolescents and young adults.

This innovative book applies contemporary and emergent theories of identity formation to timely questions of identity re/formation and development in immigrant families across diverse ethnicities and age groups.

This book highlights the reasons for an urgently needed revision of the current global healthcare setup, discusses the needed mindset for a future of health, and provides a comprehensive development toolset for disruption (and for the needed incremental innovations towards disruption).

This book reports on cutting-edge modeling techniques, methodologies and tools used to understand, design and engineer nanoscale communication systems, such as molecular communication systems.

This book introduces Casual Agency Theory as a framework for defining self-determination and describing its development and essential characteristics.

Bioremediation is the use of microorganisms' metabolism to degrade waste contaminants (sewage, domestic, and industrial effluents) into non-toxic or less toxic materials by natural biological processes.

"e;Hauser and Wagner have presented the new possibilities of Mammalian Cell Biology in a very informative and stimulating manner.

This book focuses on some of the most significant advances in enzyme engineering that have been achieved through directed evolution and hybrid approaches.

This book provides a comprehensive discussion on the current information and evidence on the latest developments in the field of drugs resistance.

World population is growing at an alarming rate and may exceed 9.

This book describes an adaptable biothreat assessment process to complement overall biorisk management programs, incorporating threat management and the unique natures of biological assets.

This volume describes the identification of emerging organic pollutants, mainly from industrial sources, their associated toxicological threats, and the latest green methods and biotechnological solutions to abate harmful impacts on people and the environment.

This book aims to comprehensively review the current cell-based strategies under investigation to achieve the regeneration of human hair follicles.

Bioanalytical chemistry plays today a central role in various fields, from healthcare to food and environmental control.

Bioanalytical chemistry plays today a central role in various fields, from healthcare to food and environmental control.

This book systematically illustrates theories and technologies in Histochemistry, including different kinds of enzymes, immunohistochemistry, polymerase chain reaction, related electron microscopic cytochemical techniques as well as the quantitative assay metrology.

This book systematically illustrates theories and technologies in Histochemistry, including different kinds of enzymes, immunohistochemistry, polymerase chain reaction, related electron microscopic cytochemical techniques as well as the quantitative assay metrology.

Stem cell based therapy is a 21st century approach of therapeutic intervention which epitomizes a shift from conventional symptomatic treatment strategy to addressing the root cause of the disease process.

Stem cell based therapy is a 21st century approach of therapeutic intervention which epitomizes a shift from conventional symptomatic treatment strategy to addressing the root cause of the disease process.

The second part of Bioenergy: Principles and Technologies continues the discussion of biomass energy technologies covering fuel ethanol production, pyrolysis, biomass-based hydrogen production and fuel synthesis, biodiesel, municipal solid water treatment and microbial fuel cells.

The second part of Bioenergy: Principles and Technologies continues the discussion of biomass energy technologies covering fuel ethanol production, pyrolysis, biomass-based hydrogen production and fuel synthesis, biodiesel, municipal solid water treatment and microbial fuel cells.

Describes the properties of cellular membranes and their relationship with fundamental biological processes.

Describes the properties of cellular membranes and their relationship with fundamental biological processes.

This contributed volume is the first of a series that introduces safe, feasible, and practical decellularization and recellularization techniques for tissue and organ reconstruction.

The discovery of ribozymes nearly 30 years ago triggered a huge interest in the chemistry and biology of RNAs.

Volume 8, solely devoted to the toxicology of metals and metalloids as well as their compounds, focuses on human health.

The occurrence of a wide variety of metal-carbon bonds in living organisms, ranging from bacteria to humans, is only recently recognized.

These sulfur-rich chelators, being important in metal ion homeostasis, find increasing attention.

This is the fourth updated and revised edition of a well-received book that emphasises on fungal diversity, plant productivity and sustainability.